... age, risk factors for coronary artery disease, valvular heart disease, arrhythmias and findings on physical examination There is a current conviction that transthoracic echocardiography or radionuclide ... threshold and ventilatory efficiency identify heart failure patients for highrisk of early death Circulation 2002, 106: 3079-3084 Older P, Hall A: Myocardial ischaemia or cardiac failure: which ... ventriculography correlates poorly with the exercise capacity and the peak oxygen uptake Froelicher showed a poor correlation between the ejection fraction and the maximal oxygen uptake in patients with coronary...
... transportation is essential? Can this person keep a global perspective? Are priorities apparent, or does she or he become mired in the details and tactics? Do obstacles stop this person? Or they ... proven track record for accomplishing impressive results – not just meeting expectations? Does this person take charge and make things happen? Or sit back and let things happen before producing? ... changes affect this person’s performance? Source : Profiles International Visit http://www.profilesvietnam.com/ or http://blog.profilesvietnam.com/blog for more details ...
... with data reported for traditional transthoracic approaches Some units restrict transhiatal esophagectomy to patients deemed unfit for thoracotomy or to patients with very early tumours or, conversely, ... to ensure adequate macroscopic tumor clearance for more proximally located esophageal tumors It is the authors' policy that only patients with subcarinal tumors identified on preoperative imaging ... endoscopic tumor perforation According to the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) classification [11], operative risk was scored as ASA-I (n = 15), ASA-II (n = 125), ASA-III (n = 72) or ASA-IV...
... extends the surface used for adsorption more distally into the membrane pores [7] In most studies, the decrease in the plasma levels of the mediators is either absent or of a minor degree Nevertheless, ... in the present scenario is also septic Might high- volume CVVH remove more inflammatory mediators and help modulate the inflammatory response? Unfortunately, there is no direct evidence that increasing ... been opened in plasma filtration/adsorption techniques: biocompatible high- gain adsorbing columns [16] These enable more effective removal of mediators in the borderline zone of filtration by hemofilters...
... vasodilatory mediators or molecules identified in sepsis by either convection or adsorption, resulting in reduction in vasopressor requirements Unlike recent studies conducted by Honore and coworkers ... responsible for the reduced need for pressor therapy with PHVHF For mediatorindependent factors, we were unable to demonstrate any differences in body temperature and arterial pH before and after ... PHVHF for days and all vasopressors (noradrenaline, adrenaline and dopamine) were discontinued on day Available online http://ccforum.com/content/9/4/R294 Table Effects of pulse high- volume...
... emphasis on social environment Behaviorism sees error fossilization as the worst sequence of not correcting an error, so overt correction must take place In UG error is probably a result of unmarked ... parents rarely correct their child's speech and that for meaning not for grammar Conversely, in the classroom error correction occurs frequently, for the sake of additional evidence for learners ... teacher has the shortest periods of time working as a teacher out of 12 teachers (17%) have worked as an English teacher for to years teachers (33%) have worked in this school for more than years...
... she needs two wardrobes to store them all 13 I had to pay $140 for books for my Spanish classes I don't know why my professor has to choose such expensive books for her course 14 Please, don't ... performance of the Tibetan folk choir Most students never discuss such topics in class, but I think it is important to teach our children to question the media Ann had never seen such high ... before his next pay check 21 He wastes so much_ time watching you tube videos that he never finishes his homework 22 He has read that book _so many_ times that he knows it by heart 23 Her work...
... Itself may be the Primary Risk Factor 285 Past-Year Risk Factors for Serious Injury or Death in Intimate Violence 286 Past Violence 286 Controlling Behavior and Stalking 287 Morbid Jealousy 287 Estrangement ... 100,000 for African/American/Blacks, 1.1 for Latino/Hispanics and 0.4 for whites or others Nevertheless, previous research paid little attention to identifying high- risk situations or effective ... official records only when they or their partner are in the morgue or emergency room However, they may be one of the highest -risk groups for the death of either the man (Browne, 1986) or the woman...
... and fathers' PTSD scores either at Time or at Time Correlations between predictor variables and PTSS scores Correlations between predictor variables measured at Time (except for the personality ... coefficients were 81 for neuroticism, 79 for extraversion, 62 for openness for experience, 62 for agreeableness, and 85 for conscientiousness The Page of 10 (page number not for citation purposes) ... substantial proportion of fathers of children with a chronic disease met the criteria for a PTSD diagnosis at both time highlights the importance of identifying fathers at risk for PTSD at an early...
... deviation scores Transforming growth factor-beta Type helper T cells Type helper T cells Tumour necrosis factor-alpha T regulatory type cells Regulatory T cells Upper respiratory tract infection World ... including in Singapore [1] For obvious reasons, effective strategies for the primary prevention of allergic diseases in high- risk infants with family history of atopy would be more attractive compared ... Marion Aw, Dr Dawn Lim, Hor Chuen Yee, Judy Anthony, Corinne Kwek Poh Lian and Bautista Fatima Yturriaga who assisted in the follow-up of the subjects; Laboratory officers Or MingYan, Wong Wen Seen,...
... of risk factor y taken at baseline for patient i; i.e the time point before medication was given trt was either placebo or pravastatin The measurements for both age as well as the risk factor ... this article as: Waaijenborg and Zwinderman, Association of repeatedly measured intermediate risk factors for complex diseases with high dimensional SNP data Algorithms for Molecular Biology 2010, ... correlation Waaijenborg and Zwinderman Algorithms for Molecular Biology 2010, 5:17 http://www.almob.org/content/5/1/17 When dealing with high- dimensional data, ordinary CCA has two major limitations...
... reduced risk of in-hospital death only in the subgroup of patients with Revised Cardiac Risk Index (RCRI) scores of or more This study deserves several comments First, the subgroup with a RCRI score ... vast majority of the patients (80% of the cohort) Second, RCRI assess specifically the cardiac risk of the patient, not the mortality related to the surgical procedure Accordingly, mortality ... Accordingly, mortality was 6% to 7% in the patients with RCRI scores of and more A high- risk surgical procedure was performed in a minority of the patients, and the effects of beta-blockade were...
... informed consent High- risk patients scheduled for major abdominal surgery with anticipated operation time longer than 120 minutes or presumed blood loss exceeding 1,000 ml (i.e colorectal or ... physiologic and operative severity score for the enumeration of mortality and morbidity score; SOFA, Sequential Organ Failure Assessment score (58.3%); P = 0.0033; relative risk = 0.514; 95% confidence ... Severity Score for the Enumeration of Mortality and Morbidity (POSSUM) [39] was calculated after operation along with SOFA score for the period of and 24 hours postoperatively Patients were monitored...
... informants learn English speaking in order to communicate with foreigners while 11,4% identify the major reason for learning speaking English to get a chance to have a university place abroad or ... obstacle for their teaching For many students, interrupting them for error correction may make them embarrassed, and more seriously, make them think of losing face in front of their peers 3.1.2 Problems ... techniques for error correction in English speaking lessons It is advisable for the teachers to give students suitable ways of error correction In terms of CLT, language is a system for the expression...
... also poses additional problems for the renal transplant patient The hormone drug regime involves supra-physiological levels of oestradiol, which are associated with a higher risk of thrombotic (blood-clotting) ... often to growthretarded or small-for-dates babies A large French study of women with pre-existing renal damage reported a prematurity rate of 17 per cent and a spontaneous abortion rate (miscarriage) ... cent) abortions Problems occur some time after delivery in 11 per cent of all women with transplants, unless the pregnancy was complicated prior to 28 weeks’ gestation, in which case remote problems...
... unknown words or recognize words which are unnecessary for understanding Like reading skill, when listening to a text, it is not necessary to understand the meanings of all the words Therefore, for ... For this type, teachers can use some different activities For example, teachers may tell a story or play a recording of the story and students will be motivated to attend and understand in order ... English information and analyze it, helping students to learn, and solve problems Moreover, they are companions- staying by students’ side; they are organizers-organizing activities for students,...
... methods for correcting oral errors are also paid much attention to It is extremely difficult for a spontaneous conversation or interaction to take place in oral communicative discourse if oral errors ... of errors corrected, the majority of the students (63.3%) showed that phonological errors were a priority to be corrected Correcting grammatical errors ranked second with 20.83% while the correction ... activity Information gap As for work arrangement used in speaking activities, no teacher choose individual work and teamwork Meanwhile, the majority (57.1%) thought that pair work worked best According...
... Cisco Express Forwarding (CEF) forwarding adjacency entries Before a failure, traffic is being forwarded using both of these forwarding entries On failure of an adjacent link or neighbor, the switch ... EIGRP neighbor information for each access switch and look for the flag indicating queries being suppressed Distribution#sh ip eigrp neighbors detail gig 3/3 IP-EIGRP neighbors for process 100 ... sink-hole routers should also be monitored by the network operations team looking for unusually high volumes of packets being forwarded to the sink hole In normal day-to-day operations, few devices...
... explicit caries risk assessment should be made for each child presenting for dental care The following factors should be considered: RISK FACTORS RISK CATEGORY HIGHRISK LOW RISK − − − − − − ... CARIES RISK CARIES RISK FACTORS Clinical evidence Dietary habits HIGHRISK Social history Use of fluoride Plaque control Saliva Medical history New lesions Premature extractions Anterior caries or ... RE-RESTORATION It is common to find a range of previous restorations in highrisk patients Restorations may fail for a number of reasons, including factors associated with the material or technique...